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I am in the middle of a minor computer vacation. It’s just yesterday (half day) and this three day weekend, but I am looking forward to looking that things that are not my computer screen. Got to the beach today, seeing some family in the Poconos, going to build a new computer on Monday…. it’s [...]

Finally getting around to install this update. Not only do I have to do it for this blog, but for some other people as well…
It’s such a hassle to have to upgrade ever few weeks, but at least I had a month or so of piece since the last one. Though this one is the [...]

http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html
Someone pretty smart is finding a way to get those anti-spam captcha boxes and use them to recognize words scanned from a book. It’s an amazing and effective way to digitize printed content. Since OCR technology does not always work so well, or at least it could use some help from time to time, this [...]

http://thinkpadreserve.com/
Just found out about it, along with all the other readers of Design Matters.
So far Thinkpad Reserve is just a short flash animation, but we see that craftsmanship and, apparently, leather are going to be important. So is this a leather-clad notebook like the Asus S6 or maybe a special case for your Thinkpad? I [...]

I started this blog for a number of reasons, but one of the most important ones was as a testing ground for services, software, and that sort of thing. Obviously I like to play around with Wordpress, but I also wanted to give Media Temple’s Grid hosting a shot, as well as test out some [...]

More than once I’ve had a CEO break down and cry on the phone when we said we weren’t covering them.
- Mike Arrington

Today’s blog meme: languor…  Or is it malaise? Or possibly self-pity?
TechCrunch kicked it off with an excellent post about how Silicon Valley and his coverage of it has changed over the past [...]

Some of today’s links worth checking out…

Snap API
Odin Sphere at Metacritic
Dell speaks on Ubuntu
technology behind the OLPC